Trump Convicted On 34 Felony Counts ... What Happens Next?
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My bet is that he is remanded to the maximum security wing at Rikers Island, then to whatever New York state prison the New York Department of Corrections deems appropriate. I also bet that the judge will revoke the bail, and set a fine equal to the bail amount - $175 million. I could see the judge sentencing Trump to ten years for each of the felony counts and run the sentences consecutively - that’s 340 years. Trump will be off the campaign trail for good, now, and will be free only after an appeals court hears his case and overturns the verdict, or the US Supreme Court does so - and that could take years. He might very well die in jail given his age. No more Trump rallies, no more huge crowds, none of that. Today, Joe Biden won another term as President, the election will be a pro forma exercise. This sets an ominous precedent, because the population of the country has to believe in the concept of free and fair elections, and this action drives a wooden stake right through the heart of that concept. I don’t know the downstream consequences of this, but I doubt that they will be either pleasant or peaceful.
Commentary from one side:
And commentary from the other:
Personally, I’m writing in John Fetterman. We need a new crop of candidates and this goes for a lot of the deadwood in Congress, too, on both sides…
Trump had no chance to win the election anyway, for one reason alone. It's clear that he had the support of the majority of the GOP, but beyond that it was doubtful. Trump has little support from the independents, of which I am one. I could never vote for that jerk. At the same time, I can never vote for Biden again. In spite of the uneducated commentary below, Biden did win the election within the rules, but it was hardly a mandate. People voted to end the crazy., not to get DEI, CRT, and PC shoved down their throats. The country should be governed to include as many people as possible, which means calm and neutral governance.
Back to Trump: he would never get a Democratic vote and he had little support among the independents, so he could never win the election in November. The whole process was to feed his ego and that's all. I could easily vote for Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis if they opposed Biden in the general election, but never Trump. I doubt that he will go to jail aside from getting booked and processed, because his lawyers are already writing an appeal, and they will get a stay immediately.
Eventually, Trump may get a prison sentence from this, like Michael Cohen, maybe nine months, but that's all.